Category: Art
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There’s A Whole Big World Of Photographers Out There
Who aren’t you. This leaves a golden opportunity to occupy the position. You will need to to see what they do, and decide whether to copy them, or not. If you decide not, you enter the next stage of contest. Now you have to decide what you do. Start by watching yourself and try to…
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Where Does Orientalism Start And Finish?
And is there occidentalism as well? I’ll bet there is, and someone is writing a PhD book about it as we speak. It will be full of scholarly footnotes, angst, and appeals for funding…in equal amounts. You can expect to be guilty about 83% of the time. I am brought to this conclusion by advertisements…
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To Whom It May Offend
Offending clients is a bad idea. But what can you say when you do not know what they will take offence at? You can only live in so much fear before it starts to seem ridiculous. I was once taken to task by a dancer for incorporating Middle Eastern themes in my studio pictures. The…
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Every Old Trick
Is new to someone. This is borne home to me every time I see a new dancer take to the stage, or do portraits for someone, or take tabletop photos of scale models. I may be repeating some look that has been going for a decade, but it is fresh for the new viewer. One…
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Working With An Art Director
Sometimes a shoot has more than just the photographer and the model involved. Sometimes there is a separate client and/or a separate art director. You need to know how to behave in these situations. a. If there is only a client and they know what they want, do what they say. If they do not…
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Copyrighting AI
Everyone says it can’t be done. But what would the Supreme Court know? They are just footling when they say that a written description is not a work of art or a creative endeavour. Have you ever watched sophomores in Creative English 101 as they struggle with the essential angst of the human condition on…
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Do You Wish To Be A Trend Setter?
Or a fuse-setter. The former encourage people to follow them and then the latter make them regret it. Laying artistic mines has a long history – the dadaists and Pablo Picasso come readily to mind. Dali was the artistic equivalent of HMS ABDIEL or HMS MANXMAN. Andy Warhol was USS TERROR with a soup can.…
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Fantasy Fotos For Fun
Or Boudoir Bytes For Bits And Butts Boudoir photos are fun if you are attractive, have someone you wish to attract, and can let yourself go on a fancy enough set. Remember that you have to pick yourself up after you have let yourself go and pack yourself back in a paper bag for the…